cursed nvidia fedora my lack of knowledgeness

[Jeff Vian]

On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 11:32 +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 12:14 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
> > Actually, more time is spent in waiting on the ntp server for the 2
> > boots than in any other part of the process.
> 
> If that's because it's trying to poll internet servers when you don't
> have an internet connection, and your connection is via PPP, try this:
> 
> Reset your services so that NTP isn't started at boot.
> 
> Make an /etc/ppp/ip-ip.local script like this:
> #!/bin/bash
> /sbin/service ntpd restart
> 
> I rarely reboot my server, but noticed that NTP dies while you're
> off-line, and never recovers.  It motivated me to find a simple
> solution.
> 

That is not the issue, simply the wait for connection and time sync
during the boot. I am online 24x7 with broadband

I could set ntp to not restart at boot but then would need to start it
after the boot completed.